We love fish recipes and most of them I keep rather simple. Fresh fish is wonderful seasoned with only salt, pepper and oregano and then grilled or broiled. It is then served with “ladolemono” sauce.

Grilled Lavraki (sea bass)

Fish is very healthy, so I try to make it for dinner at least once a week. Some times I jazz up a little with different pestos, depending on what I have at hand or just make a simple dressing, each time giving a completely different flavor. There are several ways you can prepare fish with pesto. You can broil it, roast it, bake it, grill it, or pan-sear it! One of my favourite methods is “Sti Ladokolla”.

Sti Ladokolla in Greek means “en papillote” and is probably the easiest and healthiest way of cooking fish. This is the most usual way I prefer to cook fish. Serve it with your favourite vegetables or a salad and you have a delicious and perfect food for diet.

Put all the dressing ingredients in a blender or food processor and mix.

Line a baking tin with a long piece of parchment paper, so that it may enclose the fish.

Place each trout on the parchment paper and stuff each fish with a tablespoon of this dressing. Pour the remaining on top of the fish.

Cover the fish with the remaining parchment paper and cover with aluminum foil.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Serve trouts with extra ladolemono on top, if you like and baked vegetables.

Oven Baked Vegetables

Easy and great tasting, oven baked vegetables provide an enjoyable side dish not only for fish but also for meats or poultry but on itself it is a delicious vegan meal, which can be enriched with courgettes, eggplants etc., depending on the season.

Although the recipe is given second, you should bake the vegetables first and then cook the fish.

Put all the vegetables in a baking tin and add the olive oil, lemon juice and water.

Sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano and mix well.

Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender, turning twice during baking.

Tsipoura (Sea Bream) with Potato Salad

Sea Bream was seasoned with salt, pepper, oregano, olive oil. It was filleted and placed on a layer of onions and garlic. A few slices of lemon covered the fish and it was placed on parchment paper, which also covered it (no wrapping) and it was baked in the oven.

Salted peanuts
Arkateno (Cypriot rusks) but you may use dried bread crumbs

Directions:

Wash and drain the fish.

Add the marinade ingredients and let it marinate for an hour.

Meantime in a food processor add the rusks and peanuts and powder. Remove in a plate and in the same food processor add the olive oil, garlic, onions, parsley, dill and lemon juice and zest and a pinch of salt and pepper and pulsify.

For the roulade: Spread some dressing on the perch and line the cherry tomatoes. Roll into a roulade, secure with toothpicks and crust them with the peanut mixture. Wrap it in parchment paper.

Bake in a preheated at 180o C / 350o F for about 30 minutes.

For the crusted perch: Marinate the fish, spread some dressing all over it and then crust it with the peanut mixture.

Brush a sauteing pan with olive oil and when hot saute the perch on both sides. Finish cooking in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.

Serve with a salad.

Pecan crusted Lavraki (sea bass) with pesto

Greek fish is so delicious that actually the normal way of cooking it is just by adding some salt, pepper and oregano and then grilling it.

Occasionally, I make something different for a change. This time, in each fish I added 1 tablespoon of pesto in the cavity (any kind you have) and baked it in the oven. Before baking, If you like eating the skin, you can crust it with breadcrumbs and pecans.

Fish does not need too much time to be cooked. Preheat grill + air and with rack on highest position. Line the baking tin with parchment paper, place the fish and bake for ten minutes on each side.

[…] Something Fishy.. This post has a few recipes with fish. The most difficult part of preparing fish is when it’s fresh and you have to scale it. You can ask your fish monger to do that for you or if you want to avoid this part you can buy frozen fish fillets and you can get a few idea how to prepare them in this post. […]